We had a useful meeting with colleagues from the Wellcome Trust in the area of Bioinformatics and Biological Resources funding and their equivalent schemes. We interviewed for a new Council member, the results of which form advice that will now go forward for Ministerial consideration.

There is a lot of stuff going on in OA right now. Here are two (one, two) more or less wildly contrasting views, albeit driven by differing objective functions. One recognition in this area is that many folk do not know how to find out easily which journals are either fully Open Access or compliant with the evolving RCUK policy. For this the Directory of Open Access Journals and SherpaRomeo provide helpful solutions.